It seemed to confirm what Huang Qizhi had been thinking. Just as Elder Xie was speaking, two faint streaks of escaping light had already cut off the retreat behind Qin Fengming and his companion.
The escaping lights flashed rapidly, arriving five hundred zhang behind the two men in the time it took to draw a breath.
The escaping lights abruptly slowed, revealing two cultivators, one man and one woman. The man was around fifty, with an imposing bearing and a dignified appearance. The female cultivator was a mature beauty. Although faint lines had appeared at the corners of her eyes, it was still easy to tell that she had been extraordinarily alluring in her youth.
Neither of these two cultivators was weak. Both had already reached the peak Spirit Severing stage.
When Huang Qizhi saw the two peak Spirit Severing cultivators approach, his expression finally ceased to be calm.
"Fellow Daoist Huang, the five of us have no intention of killing the two of you. You only need to hand over wealth worth ten million top-grade Spirit Stones, and we will let you leave. We also guarantee that we will not make a move against your Linghan Merchant Alliance again within a year. Otherwise, Fellow Daoist should understand in his heart what the consequences will be."
The speaker was still Elder Xie. The man and woman who had just appeared merely stood there with their hands clasped behind their backs, their expressions relaxed, as though they had no intention of speaking at all.
"Enough. I presume the five of you are the ones who have been blocking the way outside Jingqing Valley Market all this time. Now this Qin will give the five of you a chance to live. Each of you must hand over wealth worth ten million top-grade